Kids with stupid names...

[Jamesgt]

My wife has just met a girl at one of the playgroups who called her kid donny-bruce!

[lucido grigio]

Jamesgt said:

My wife has just met a girl at one of the playgroups who called her kid donny-bruce!

I assumed that you are in Scotland with that name mentioned but your profile says Wales....

[nutcase]

Money section of the Sunday Times earlier- story of a mother who donated her Son's old clothes to a charity (non-story), but she'd named the poor sod Badger. Yes, four year old Badger. Kid's gonna get absolutely ripped to shreds at School.

Edited to add link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/money/thanks-for...

[Marty63]

Overheard at a hospital appointment

teenagers name was Le-a (female)

pronounced Ledasha

[Mr Snrub]

nutcase said:

Money section of the Sunday Times earlier- story of a mother who donated her Son's old clothes to a charity (non-story), but she'd named the poor sod Badger. Yes, four year old Badger. Kid's gonna get absolutely ripped to shreds at School.

Edited to add link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/money/thanks-for...

All I can think of now is badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

[Cyder]

Marty63 said:

Overheard at a hospital appointment

teenagers name was Le-a (female)

pronounced Ledasha

No way?

What a coincidence, I was at a diner in Utah being served by Hitler while Elvis and Shergar cooked out the back. Adolf just couldn't stop telling the punters about his little niece Le-a.

You'll never guess how it was pronounced?!?!

Edited for blasted auto-correct.

Edited by Cyder on Monday 6th March 08:13

[RDMcG]

I think it is a huge handicap...when you look at business leaders or leading professionals in virtually any category they have mainstream names ( not necessarily Western names naturally) but the made up, misspelled, novelty names which are sometimes copied from some TV or movie person's latest attempt at originality just make it harder. My son is now an adult and the desire we had at the time was that his name would not be particularly distinctive (Andrew) so that much more important aspects of who is was would not be distorted by a laughable name.

[Tony Starks]

Cyder said:

Marty63 said:

Overheard at a hospital appointment

teenagers name was Le-a (female)

pronounced Ledasha

No way?

What a coincidence, I was at a diner in Utah being served by Hitler while Elvis and Sherman cooked out the back. Adolf just couldn't stop telling the punters about his little niece Le-a.

You'll never guess how it was pronounced?!?!

Everyone around the world must have heard of Le-A, she must be well travelled.

[The Moose]

RDMcG said:

I think it is a huge handicap...when you look at business leaders or leading professionals in virtually any category they have mainstream names ( not necessarily Western names naturally) but the made up, misspelled, novelty names which are sometimes copied from some TV or movie person's latest attempt at originality just make it harder. My son is now an adult and the desire we had at the time was that his name would not be particularly distinctive (Andrew) so that much more important aspects of who is was would not be distorted by a laughable name.

I believe that generally intelligence breeds intelligence.

With that in mind, it's not surprising they don't get anywhere. I'm not sure it's the name that's the handicap...

[Joe5y]

A family member who isn't the most intelligent of people has named her two girls Ashleee & Allyssa Nikhol.

[Pothole]

nutcase said:

Money section of the Sunday Times earlier- story of a mother who donated her Son's old clothes to a charity (non-story), but she'd named the poor sod Badger. Yes, four year old Badger. Kid's gonna get absolutely ripped to shreds at School.

Edited to add link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/money/thanks-for...

Well, at least afterwards they can just leave him by the side of the road and people will think he got hit by a car...(works for cattle farmers who shoot them, I hear)

[conkerman]

I quite fancied having Xavier in my firstborns name. X is a cool initial.

My Mrs called me a tt and he now is George William.

[Shakermaker]

My wife, as a primary school teacher, has seen a lot of this over the years. At her previous school in west London, these were some of the names that children had:

Chanelle-Belle
Wynter-Holly
Summer-Peach
Cristianoronaldo (exactly as that, all one word)

[Moonhawk]

nutcase said:

Money section of the Sunday Times earlier- story of a mother who donated her Son's old clothes to a charity (non-story), but she'd named the poor sod Badger. Yes, four year old Badger. Kid's gonna get absolutely ripped to shreds at School.

Edited to add link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/money/thanks-for...

There does seem to be a propensity of parents calling their new babies 'cute' names.

Fine when they are a 'cute ikkle baby' - but this kid may need to write a CV, go for job interviews, book business meetings at some point in the future.

[Hugo a Gogo]

it's just possible she simply didn't want his real name in the paper

or maybe he does have siblings called Mushroom and Ooh A Snake!

[conkerman]

Wouldn't his name have to be Badger-Badger-Badger-Badger... for that?

[del mar]

Marty63 said:

Overheard at a hospital appointment

teenagers name was Le-a (female)

pronounced Ledasha

I met a US doctor who had come across a La-a, perhaps more common than you think !

[Moonhawk]

del mar said:

I met a US doctor who had come across a La-a, perhaps more common than you think !

Scousers are know to travel from time to time

[anonymous-user]

conkerman said:

I quite fancied having Xavier in my firstborns name. X is a cool initial.

Same here. When we were discussing children's names – long before any came along – we agreed that my wife could choose the girl's name and I'd pick a boy's name.

I liked her choice and surprisingly she was okay with mine which was also Xavier (with the emphasis on Zav-ier, not Zave-ier). His initials would have been XY.

[Mr Snrub]

Moonhawk said:

nutcase said:

Money section of the Sunday Times earlier- story of a mother who donated her Son's old clothes to a charity (non-story), but she'd named the poor sod Badger. Yes, four year old Badger. Kid's gonna get absolutely ripped to shreds at School.

Edited to add link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/money/thanks-for...

There does seem to be a propensity of parents calling their new babies 'cute' names.

Fine when they are a 'cute ikkle baby' - but this kid may need to write a CV, go for job interviews, book business meetings at some point in the future.

But at least when they end up working for faketaxi dot com they won't have to think of a pseudonym